Since colonial times, religious groups in the United States have strengthened their religious identity and expression through education. As America has grown, so have the educational needs and options of its increasingly diverse religious groups. The growth of Islamic schools in…
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This dissertation examines the political, social, religious and artistic status of rags al-sharqi dancers in Egypt during the twentieth century. It explores the progress and struggles of rags al-sharqi dancers during that time as affected by the factors of politics, religion, cl…
CHELSEA LOVELY NEESE: Stepping into the Open: Women’s Experience in the Military During World War II
This thesis is about the changing gender roles for women after the Civil War. The subjects of this thesis focuses on a small group of wealthy white women whose wills were filled in the Fulton County Courthouse in the city of Atlanta between 1880–1920.
Because novels reflect history as well as art, this work seeks to identify the historical origins of gender bias—the categories of Male Law and Female Sacrifice—as they are characterized in Defoe's Roxana (1724), Richardson's Clarissa (1747), and Walpole's The Castle of Otranto …
Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Christine de Pizan has resurfaced in the academic and literary spheres as a paragon of proto-feminist thought. This modern fascination with the fifteenth-century writer is largely grounded in her surprisingly progressi…
The use of material culture in research can often be advantageous over other primary sources. It can open up new modes of historical interpretations and understanding that written works may never reveal. As a result, this thesis will rely upon the use of material culture methodo…
Traditional masculinity ideology and conformity to specific masculine norms have been associated with dozens of negative outcomes, including increased depression, violent behavior, and low esteem (O'Neil, 2012). Gender conceptions can also be positively constructed in men to res…
When the United States government passed the Dawes Act on February 8, 1887, they saw it as a revolution. The Dawes Act and all associated policies, such as allotment, would only be in place until 1934—when it was reversed by the Wheeler-Howard Act (sometimes referred to as the I…
In this thesis, I investigate the gender ideologies, conventions, and stereotypes represented in Japanese popular music lyrics by analyzing 17,614 commercially successful songs released in Japan from 1968 to 2020 utilizing natural language processing and machine learning. In the…
Any media that is targeted toward children should bear in mind how impressionable young children are. The intention of this study was to examine the portrayal of gender roles and other values in Hindu mythology from the perspectives of adults who work with children. Data was col…
The 1950s stand out as a decade of traditional gender roles with mass media and popular culture continuously reinforcing messages about patriarchy, consumer culture, and the ideal of domesticity. Advertisements, magazines, and newspapers painted pictures of happy, white middle-c…
This dissertation followed the two-manuscript model and includes the following manuscripts: (1) A review of masculine ideals within cultural groups, with a specific focus on highlighting consequences of masculine gender role norms across cultures. (2) An empirical study that exa…
This dissertation seeks to explore and gauge the influence of Ottoman womanhood in the Hamidian era (1876-1909) in terms of issues related to poverty, destitution, and the gender roles of women of both elite and non-elite societal groups during the late Ottoman period by way of …
The central goal of this study was to understand the attitude of the students at the basic college of education in Kuwait toward gender roles. The study was conducted in Kuwait. Two hundred students, one hundred males and one hundred females were the sample population. To accomp…
Globalization has added to the growth of labor migration as a source of income for wives and families left behind in developing countries. The impact on wives left behind by working husbands requires further investigation in order to produce the best practices to combat the soci…
This clinical dissertation explores immigrant women's experiences, particularly those who emigrated from Iran, and the impact of gender role changes on their mental health and family dynamics. Considering the central role of Iranian women within the family unit, their traditiona…
This research study examines the impact of international migration of household labor for Bosnian immigrant women living in Portland, Oregon. Bosnia is a society with enduring patriarchal traditions which assume that women are in charge of doing household chores. Men are in char…
This qualitative research aims to explore the advertising industry in Saudi Arabia, with an in-depth look into the women employees in advertising agencies. It examines Saudi women that have entered this dynamic work environment, and what struggles they face to succeed in an adve…